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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Drawing from his 20+ years of technology experience and extensive research, Nishant shared insights about how these activities vary across different organizational contexts – from startups to enterprises, B2B to B2C, and Agile to Waterfall environments.

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521: Leadership Crossroads–What Every Product Manager Must Know Before Their Next Move – with Kimberly Bloomston, CPO

Product Innovation Educators

Growing up in a tech-friendly household with an entrepreneurial father who owned retail businesses gave her early exposure to both technology and business operations. This revelation led her to refocus her career from general business operations to technology product management.

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PM Branding: Building Your Personal Brand as a Product Manager

The Product Guy

Stay up-to-date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and new methodologies. Your personal brand isn’t just a reflection of where you are now—it’s a roadmap for where you’re headed. Regularly seek feedback and ensure your personal brand aligns with how you’re seen by the people you work with daily. Stay tuned!

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Building Better Product Roadmaps: First Principles You Can’t Ignore

The Product Coalition

How first principles can help you design product roadmaps from the ground up. Product roadmaps are no exception. Creating or even updating a product roadmap can feel like being handed a blank sheet of paper and told you have 60 minutes to write a ten-page college essay on a topic you didn’t study for….

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Roadmaps Are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps!

Speaker: Bruce McCarthy, Co-Author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched and Founder of Product Culture

Many times, when companies are building their product roadmaps, they are not properly accounting for customer validation. Product roadmaps are a useful tool when they are created and used properly. They are supposed to focus primarily on customer needs and only secondarily on technology and features.

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These “Best Practices” Are Slowly Killing Your Product

The Product Guy

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. As can be easily found in many organizations: Roadmaps trap you in outdated plans. Rule 1: Trust the Roadmap Roadmaps are your comfort zone.

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How Product Leaders Thrive in Uncertainty: Planning, Creativity, and Influence

The Product Guy

Planning creates momentum, even without clear outcomes : Roadmaps should adapt to what is known, what is still emerging, and what is possible. Label roadmap items as Known, Possible, or Emergent This shifts the conversation from “What are we delivering?” It is a structure. to “How certain are we?”

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6 Ways to Leverage AI in Roadmap Planning

This article is about the ways in which AI, specifically ChatGPT, can be leveraged in roadmap planning, emphasizing the importance of human intelligence alongside AI technologies.

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Roadmap Personas: The Best Way to Set Expectations for Teams, Clients, and Leadership

Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

When was the last time you trusted a roadmap to show you where the product could go and how the teams might get there? Because most roadmaps are at least five years long, teams are frequently unable to see the next set of essential features. Can your customers rely on your roadmaps to find out when new features will be released?

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Untangle the Complexity of Your Digital Transformation With Roadmapping: Confidence and Clarity for the Journey Ahead

Learn about the ‘five steps for digital transformation’ framework and how roadmapping, in particular the S- and T- Plan methods, can drive and support all types of product and technology planning. Download this briefing paper to discover useful frameworks and tools researched and developed by the University of Cambridge.

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The Product Corner: Maximizing Impact, Reducing Hours, and Accelerating Roadmaps with Data

Speaker: Edie Kirkman - VP, Digital at Focus Brands

To overcome this challenge, it is crucial to build core product and technology competencies that provide actionable insights through qualitative and quantitative data analysis. In today's hyper-digital landscape, organizations face the challenge of launching successful products while making the most of limited resources.

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Upgrading Data Security in a Crisis

Speaker: M.K. Palmore, VP Field CSO (Americas), Palo Alto Networks

Roadmaps are rarely implemented without challenges. He will use a combination of industry insights through statistical observations and direct customer feedback to emphasize the importance of adopting new technologies to battle an ever changing threat landscape. In this webinar, you will learn: The future of data security.

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How to Scale a Data Literacy Program at Your Organization

Speaker: Megan Brown, Director, Data Literacy at Starbucks; Mariska Veenhof-Bulten, Business Intelligence Lead at bol.com; and Jennifer Wheeler, Director, IT Data and Analytics at Cardinal Health

Join data & analytics leaders from Starbucks, Cardinal Health, and bol.com for a webinar panel discussion on scaling data literacy skills across your organization with a clear strategy, a pragmatic roadmap, and executive buy-in. In this webinar, you will learn about: Launching data literacy programs and building business cases.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. Save your seat today! September 24th, 2024 at 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EDT, 7:00 PM BST

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From Project to Product: Don't You Dare Mess With Planning

Speaker: Anne Steiner, Vice President of Product and Technology at Cprime

Join Anne Steiner, Cprime’s VP of Product & Technology, in this installment of our Project to Product series. Ways to create roadmaps and product horizons at the portfolio, product family, and product levels. Some in the agile community have resisted the need for planning, while others have simply encouraged planning in shorter cycles.